again because we grow up in architecture so intrinsically i believe we are almost primed to not think much of it. have you thought about the walls in your home? about the assemblies inside them? about the year that your home was built? i think it's not unreasonable to not typically think about those things but, conversely, as an architecture student we'd think that it is preferable to indeed start thinking about these things. we are studying the built environment and the built environment is universally omnipresently all around us, so it's an internal force telling us to examine literally everything around us obviously a hard task and aaron betsky would cite one of the reasons of such difficulty being that everything is made out of so many different individual parts that it gets all muddy and wishywashy and confusing, the untrained eye unable to discern at surface level. we look at homes and we just see, say, the gable or gables of its roof and the wood siding that most certainly covers it. we look at columns (most often big columns, as part of how we are attracted to "grandiose" forms that tower over us) and we look notsomuch at whether they are actually supporting something in the structure. at least that's how I feel a lot of the time based on my own observations i don't think we absorb much about all these technicalities quite yet there's always self study but yk again school just takes up all our time, you'd expect school to teach you this stuff